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Great thanks to The following sites proved to be invaluable resources while I was doing my research; Alain Baillon-Shabazz and Chantal Caillé provide an easily-navigated guide to architectural New York: www.shabazzone.com Carter B. Horsley's long-running treasure trove of his writings about NYC buildings http://www.thecityreview.com/home.html Contains a large collection of original photographs of the city, including famous skyscrapers, and the best forum on New York architecture: www.wirednewyork.com New York Architecture In Images. Very good photo and info site. www.greatgridlock.net/NYC_Images/imgentry.html Museum of the City of New York: www.mcny.org Kevin Walsh's superb long-running and continually getting bigger and better site: http://www.forgotten-ny.com Daniel's Manhattan Architecture River Crossings
Other good New York Architecture Sites Amateur enthusiast Amelia Wilson tours us round the wealth of Gothic Revival carving in New York: www.aardvarkelectric.com/gargoyle A virtual Gothic cathedral project, featuring articles, photo galleries of Gothic architectural details: www.newyorkcarver.com Non-profit organization lecture, exhibition and program information: www.archleague.org An illustrated history by Gerard Fernandez of this Romanesque synagogue built 1927-9: www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/fernandez.html Architecture of New York City: www.greatbuildings.com/places/new_york_city.html The AIA New York Chapter is the oldest and largest chapter of the American Institute of Architects: www.aiany.org Architecture Exhibits in the New York City Metropolitan Area. ... Early 20th Century photographs of New York architecture and interiors. ... www.demel.net/nycarchitecture LANDMARK WEST! The Committee to Preserve the Upper West Side: http://www.preserve.org/lmwest/index.htm Storefront for Art and Architecture: www.storefrontnews.org New York Carver Homepage Stone carving, architecture, art: www.newyorkcarver.com/geometry/geometry.htm 19th Century Architecture- some old images: www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/19_sky.html New York Historical Society www.nyhistory.org/library/resarch.html New York City Architecture: some notes: www.michael.leland.name/nycmain.htm Brooklyn Brownstone blog spot http://brownstoner.blogspot.com/2005/01/close-up-on-bedford-stuyvesant.html New York photo sites Very nice photo site.: http://www.pbase.com/zippythechimp Norman McGrath took the excellent and wonderful full-page photos for Eric P. Nash's book "Manhattan Skyscrapers", which was published in 1999. http://normanmcgrath.com/ A weblog with great photos of the city: http://www.rion.nu www.geocities.com/nyskyscrapers http://www.rovingrube.com New York in the 70s: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0402/at_thumbs.html Photo blog: http://www.urban75.org/photos/newyork/index03.html Interesting garbage site: www.filthymess.com Walking Tours: Big City Walks. Conducted by someone who truly loves New York. Big Onion Walking Tours Jim Dykes' A Buzz Around New York. Personalized tours, with a special focus on New York celebrities Joyce Gold History Tours of New York Location Tours, Inc. New York in movies and on TV. New York City Cultural Walking Tours Radical Walking Tours of New York. A big inspiration to me. Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts. Walking tours in the form of scavenger hunts--a terrific idea. Criminal History of the East Village. From Andrew Roth's Infamous Manhattan. Walking Tour of the Village. A virtual walking tour; informative with lots of nice pictures. A Love of Monsters. "Gargoyles and Architectural Details in New York City"; includes several illustrated walking tours Gansevoort Market: A Walking Tour New York City Media Gawker Gothamist Morning News Tale of Two Cities The Politicker MemeFirst DailyCandy Manhattan User's Guide Real Estate Blogs & Media Brownstoner Triple Mint Property Grunt The Boxtank The Real Deal Inman News HotelChatter NYTimes Real Estate NYPost Real Estate Manhattan Transfers The Cooperator Habitat Magazine Slatin Report Real Estate Resources ACRIS Property Shark RealtyBaron RadCribs Village Voice Listings Craigslist PostYourProperty NYC Real Estate Agents Brown Harris Stevens CBHK Corcoran Douglas Elliman DwellingQuest Halstead Peter Ashe Stribling Sotheby's Warburg William B. May Architecture & Urbanity Archinect Wired New York eOculus Archpaper Arch Week Arch Record Regional Plan Assoc Planetizen Veritas & Venustas City Comforts Daily Dose Design & Shelter Metropolis Apartment Therapy MoCo Loco Reluct Cool Hunting Treehugger WorldChanging Sensory Impact Unbeige Funfurde DesignSponge GNR8 Land & Living Hamptons C&G Food & Drink Utility Citysearch Menupages Dodgeball Add Your Own NYMetro Food AOL CityGuide OpenTable Sushi NYC Food & Drink Opinion She Loves NY The Food Section eGullet Chowhound Slice A Full Belly Bourrez Votre Visage Frost Street VittleVamp The Corner Table Gastropoda Strong Buzz NYCBartenders Mouthfuls NYC Waiter Rant ShamelessRestaurants Community Media Village Voice NYPress Gotham Gazette The Villager Downtown Express Resident Hell's Kitchen Online Tribeca Trib Volume NYC L Magazine Brooklyn Papers Big Media NYTimes NYPost NYDailyNews New York Mag NYObserver Newsday Crain's Tourist Info: www.nyctourist.com Official Guide to New York City Hotels & Tourism NYC & Company. The official website. Virtual Tourist: Tamirros' New York City Travel Page. The NYC Insider. Guy Brighton's New York City Guide. A transplanted Londoner's guide to the city. Stock Photo sites High resolution stock images and framed photo prints by Andrew Prokos http://www.andrewprokos.com/new_york_photos.html Stock Photos www.photovault.com/Link/Cities/New/YorkCity/CNYVolume01.html New York Neighbourhood sites A similar site, but only about northern Manhattan: http://www.columbia.edu/~nad7/neighborhood/index.html Nice Site: Greenwich Village: http://www.gvshp.org/south_villagevirtualtour.htm Kew Gardens history: www.oldkewgardens.com General New York Sites http://www.michaelminn.com/newyork/index.html?home.html Postcards HQ Resource Directory at http://www.postcardshq.com/postcardsnewyork "The Ultimate NYC Web Directory": http://www.notfortourists.com/web.html Party forum: www.whatsupnyc.net The Web reference for NYC transit: www.nycsubway.org NYC Transit surface transportation http://www.bustalk.net/forum/ Useful for locating galleries and local events: New York CitySearch New York Today Events listing sponsored by the New York Times. noirbox; photos of New York buildings in various stages of demolition. superfuture newyork. Annotated maps of the cool places in Manhattan--also Tokyo and Sydney. Small Town Brooklyn. -but for Brooklyn. Virtual New York. Linked photographs of the streets of New York--a fun way to stroll around Manhattan via cyberspace. NYC in Pictures. A photographic archive of the avenues and main cross streets of Manhattan. Sampling Broadway: Intersections of Time and Place Manhattan Timeformations. "Mapping Manhattan's skyscraper districts through time"--pretty cool. 1001 Nights in Manhattan. An interactive map of the island's sexual history, courtesy of the Museum of Se[x]. Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. An aerial map of Manhattan hyperlinked to stories set in specific places. Add your own story! Place Matters. Compiling a census of places that matter to New Yorkers. Strange New York. A map of some strange things in New York. Mapping Hell's Kitchen. A photo tour of a neighborhood threatened by development. New York City Signs: 14th Street to 42nd Street. I identify both with the geographic organization and the obsessive collection of trivia. The Brick Apple: New York City in LEGO. I have to admit that this insane person belongs in this category. Choose Your Own Adventure: Welcome to New York!. This is pretty funny. Below 14th; a website about eating and drinking in downtown (mostly Lower East Side) New York. Everything NY. Kind of a meta-blog. Or is that redundant? New York History Sites Very good old map site: http://www.brorson.com/neighborhood/NeighborhoodTourNew.html NEW YORK CITY SIGNS -- 14TH TO 42ND STREET http://www.14to42.net/ Bronx sites http://members.tripod.com/~IrmaML/index-5.html http://www.davebeckerman.com/1636/index.html http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/browsers/camilo/camilo-browser.html http://www.pbase.com/zippythechimp/the_bronx http://www.brorson.com/BronxWeb/GrandConcourse1.html http://www.bronxview.com http://bronxblotter.home.mindspring.com http://kraybill.home.mindspring.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bronxpictures http://bronxart.lehman.cuny.edu/pa http://www2.nypl.org/home/branch/bronx/index.cfm http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/polisci/discover/bxtext.htm http://www.news12.com/BX General Architecture Sites Threatened Victorians in DC:. www.victoriansecrets.net Freelance photographer Larry O. Gay's sites: Architecture in Birmingham, Alabama http://larryogayartist.oceansfree.com My Journey through Birmingham Alabama http://larryotto.teach-nology.com www.churchcrawler.co.uk British and international church architecture site with good section on New York.
Skyscraper Museum, inside Battery Park City (home of Ritz-Carlton), 39 Battery Place. (212) 968-1961; www.skyscraper.org . Noon-6 p.m. Wednesday- Sunday. $5 adults, $2.50 students and seniors. Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Greenwich Village). (212) 683-0023; www.aiany.org . Gallery open 9 a.m. -8 p.m. weekdays,11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Grand Central Station, 42nd Street and Park Avenue. For information on tours and special events, visit www.grandcentralterminal.com . Lever House, Park Avenue and 53rd Street. The Lever House Restaurant (390 Park Ave., but enter on 53rd; 212-888-2700, www.leverhouse.com ) serves lunch weekdays and dinner nightly. Dinner entrees $29-$76 (average $30-$45). LVMH tower, 21 E. 57th St. (between Madison and Fifth avenues). Home of the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy headquarters. American Folk Art Museum, 45 W. 53rd St., New York. (212) 265-1040, www.folkartmuseum.org . 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday (till 7:30 Friday); closed Monday. $9 adults, $7 students and seniors, free for children under 12. Municipal Art Society, (212) 935-3960, www.mas.org . A 111-year-old civic organization in the historic Villard Houses at 457 Madison Ave. Besides exhibit space, it has the excellent Urban Center Books ( www.urbancenterbooks.com ), a store jammed with everything from thin guidebooks to fat academic treatises. Where to stay The Maritime Hotel, 363 W. 16th St. (212) 242-4300, www.themaritimehotel.com . The coolest address in the red-hot Meatpacking district was built in 1966 as the headquarters of the Maritime Union; it's clad in white ceramic tiles with porthole windows; rooms have a kitschy mock-nautical decor. Doubles from $235. 70 Park Avenue Hotel, (212) 973-2400, www.70parkavenuehotel.com . San Francisco's Kimpton chain has opened its first New York property on a quiet stretch of the storied avenue. Demure rooms and a stylish restaurant, the Silverleaf Tavern. Doubles from $275. The Cosmopolitan Hotel, 95 W. Broadway. (888) 895-9400, www.cosmohotel.com . Stylish it isn't, but for cleanliness and location, this small inn can't be beat. A subway stop is outside the front door; Tribeca is on the north, and the former World Trade Center is to the south. Doubles from $129.
Some Columbia Sites American Studies on the Internet - local and other resources for American Studies New York City Documents - from the Documents Service Center in Lehman Library New York City Information Sources - A Guide to Library Resources at Columbia concerning New York Avery Library's "How to Research a Columbia Building" Avery Library's "How to Research a New York City Building" Selected New York City Resources - useful links on local culture et al. Non-historical Sites City.net - New York - a commercial guide to the city Metrobeat NY - another commercial guide Metroscope: New York - and another commercial guide - New York Culture, etc. New York City CitySearch New York City Culture Guide & Calendar - an excellent resource for cultural institutions from the Alliance for the Arts. New York City Francophone - information on the Francophone community of New York - schools, institutions, cultural resources New York City Reference: "The Complete Reference for URLs In or About New York City" - there is a great deal of information here, courtesy of Clay Irving. New York Now - and another commericial guide. NEWYORK.SIDEWALK - care of Microsoft. NYC Blue - everything from the census to the local papers and the stock exchanges. NYC Link - the City's Home Page Virtual New York - a mapping resource & much more. The U.S. Census for New York City - The 1990 census numbers from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. For further information on the U.S. Census, see Guide to Using 1990 United States Census Data at EDS from Columbia University's Electronic Data Service New York Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Is The City's Neighborhoods 1010 President Street: A Brooklyn Home Page - Links to a range of Brooklyn sites Bayridge.com - News, coming events, local business information and more on this Brooklyn neighborhood Brooklyn On Line - A site devoted to Brooklyn on every level East Harlem Online - Historical, commercial and other informations on the East Harlem/El Barrio community Harlem.NYC - A virtual tour and information on businesses and organizations in Harlem Hell's Kitchen Online - Commercial and other information on this Manhattan neighborhood west of 8th Avenue between 14th and 52nd Streets The Morningside Heights Residents Association - information on the Association and its activities along with historic photos of Columbia's own New York neighborhood. NYSite West Side - A Guide to the Upper West Side of Manhattan with a useful block guide map Internet Resources for the City's History Brooklyn Stories Central Park History - a part of the Central Park Web Site. Coney Island History - a wonderful site with historical articles and maps of New York's most famous amusement center. Discovering the Bronx: Social Problems and Achievements in a Major Urban Area - from The Bronx Data Center at Lehman College - statistics, maps et al. Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection - from the Library of Congress - over 29,000 images, primarily of architectural subjects, many from the New York Area - the New York World's Fair of 1939-40 is featured. Gracie Mansion - the Mayor's House History of Jazz in New York City History of Radio City Music Hall History of the Lake, Central Park How the Other Half Lives - courtesy of TenantNet, this is an html version of Jacob Riis's classic work. Images from New York Album</> published by Wittemann Bros. in 1883 New York: A Documentary Film - the Web Site of the PBS documentary. New York City Motion Pictures Home Page: the collection contains forty-five films dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. There is a search option as well as a selected bibliography. New York City Subway Resources - the History and Operations of the Subways New York State Newspaper Project - a project to catalog and preserve New York State's newspapers coordinated by the New York State Library. The New York 1964 World's Fair - articles and maps on the city's last internations fair. On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century - an html version edited by Wes Miller and Chad Massey of this collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides was compiled to accompany the course, An Urban Experience: New York City's Lower East Side, 1880-1920. The Post-World War II Civil Rights Struggles: An Introduction to Web Resources - A demonstration resource page created at the Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. It is a veritable text book together with speeches, writings, and a photo collection. Preserve & Protect, Inc. - A New York not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing space on the World Wide Web for Historic Preservation and Environmental Protection Organizations - includes the Historic Districs Council & the New York Landmarks Conservancy. The Seneca Village Website - cooperative project of the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, the Office of Young Adult Services and Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies - a wonderful collection of materials on the history of Central Park and the African American community that pre-dated the park The Society for New York City History - established in 1983 as a forum for discussion of current research in New York City History The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 - Edited by Ronald Lawson with the assistance of Mark Naison, this html version of the Rutgers University Press monograph comes courtesy of the TenantNet Libraries, Museums & Other New York City Cultural Institutions Note: For basic information about a whole host of New York City cultural institutions, link to: New York City Culture Guide & Calendar The American Museum of Natural History The Brooklyn Historical Society The Brooklyn Museum Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lower East Side Tenement Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology The Museum of American Financial History The Museum of the City of New York The New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown The New York Public Library The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts The New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian The South Street Seaport Museum Histories of New York Institutions A Brief History of the FDNY History of the Second New York Regiment The New York City Ballet - its History New York City Council History New York City Subway Resources: History and Operations New York City Transit History - key events since the Transit Authority's creation in 1953 The New York Eye & Ear Infirmary Temple Emanu-El - Its History Trinity Church - Its History
Contemporary architects relevant to new York A arquitectonica www.arquitectonica.com Alsop Architects www.alsoparchitects.com Anderson Associates: http://www.anderassoc.com B Bricolage Designs http://www.bricolagedesigns.com C Costas Kondylis & Part. - www.kondylis.com Santiago Calatrava - http://www.calatrava.com/ coop-himmelblau www.coop-himmelblau.at D Davis Brody Bond - www.davisbrody.com E Eli Attia - www.eliattia.com Eisenman - http://www.eisenmanarchitects.com/ www.ericowenmoss.com F Fox&Fowle - www.foxfowle.com Foster and Partners - http://www.fosterandpartners.com/ Future systems www.future-systems.com www.fuksas.it Karl Fischer Architecte - http://www.kfarchitect.com G Michael Graves - http://www.michaelgraves.com/ Gwathmey Siegel & Associates - http://www.gwathmeysiegel.com/ Nicholas Grimshaw www.grimshaw-architects.com www.glform.com H Steven Holl - http://www.stevenholl.com/ Zaha Hadid www.zaha-hadid.com Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S www.hlt.dk Gary handel http://www.garyhandel.com/ J Philip Johnson & Alan Ritchie - www.pjar.com K Kohn Pedersen Fox - www.kpf.com Rem Koolhaas/OMA www.oma.nl Costas kondylis http://www.kondylis.com/ Elena Kalman - http://www.kalmandesign.com L Ismael Leyva - www.ilarch.com Studio Libeskind - http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/ Lee Harris Pomeroy Associates - http://www.lhparch.com M Richard Meier - http://www.richardmeier.com/ morphosis - http://www.morphosis.net/morph.html MVRDV www.mvrdv.archined.nl Murphyjahn www.murphyjahn.com N http://www.jeannouvel.fr/ NBBJ www.nbbj.com O Thomas O'Hara - www.hto-architect.com P Cesar Pelli & Assoc. - www.cesar-pelli.com Perkins Eastman PC - www.peapc.com Renzo Piano - http://www.rpwf.org/ Polshek Partnership - http://www.polshek.com/ Antoine Predock www.predock.com Paul andreu www.paul-andreu.com Dominic Perrault www.perraultarchitecte.com Chris de portzamparc www.chdeportzamparc.com Platt Byard Dovell White: http://www.pbdw.com R www.richardrogers.co.uk Rogers Marvel Architects: http://www.rogersmarvel.com S SOM - www.som.com SHoP - www.shoparc.com Swanke Hayden Connell- www.shca.com Frederic Schwartz - http://www.schwartzarch.com/index.htm Moshe Safdie http://www.msafdie.com/ Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects www.smharch.com Robert A.M. Stern: www.ramsa.com T Bernard Tschumi www.tschumi.com U Unstudio www.unstudio.com V Venturi Scott Brown & Associates- http://www.vsba.com/ Rafael Vinoly - http://www.rvapc.com/flashindex.html Michael Van Valkenberg: (landscape) www.mvvainc.com www.viguier.com W www.wilkinsoneyre.com Roberta Washington - http://www.robertawashington.com
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